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Show AMERICAN SCIENTISTS ! INTENSELY INTERESTED I WASHINGTON, Sopt. 11. The mem ' bers of the National Geographic societvi are watching with 'intense interest ilu, progress of the stories of the Pearv and Cook expeditions to the north pole.' Both Commander Peary and Dr. Cook are members of the socielv. It has been suggested, though not bv officials of the society, that arbitration of tho mutter of the claims of the! ! two men might well be left to the I National Geographic society ns well as; to tho coast and geodetic survev. in; view of the inclusion of both men in' the society's membership and tho gen 1 crally representtitive nature of tho.i! who make up its rank and file. Tlu? society, however, has taken action at- testing its eoncurrenco in the uecepfa-1 bilitv of the arbitral ion by tho coast and "geodetic survey, which is rnpre j sonted on the board of managers of' it lie geographic society. t j Tho board of the National Geographic ! p-ociety hns mado no formal request of iinv character in connection with the, i Cook-Peary dispute |